Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography / / Sally Johnson.
In 1995 an official reform of German orthography was announced and a new set of rules for spelling and punctuation was introduced into schools between 1998 and 2005. These changes, however, unleashed a wave of public protest such that by the beginning of 1996 the question of how the German language...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction to the 1996 Reform of German Orthography
- 2. Historical Background
- 3. Linguistic Details
- 4. The Constitutional Challenge
- 5. The 1996 Reform as Language Ideological Debate
- 6. The Trouble with Spelling? Discussion and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index